Ellmar Ring Quotes & Sayings

As the Nazi emphasis on nonintellectual virtues (patriotism, loyalty, duty, purity, labor, simplicity, "blood," "folk-ishness") seeped through Germany, elevating the self-esteem of the "little man," the academic profession was pushed from the very center to the very periphery of society. Germany was preparing to cut its own head off. By 1933 at least five of my ten friends (and I think six or seven) looked upon "intellectuals" as unreliable and, among these unreliables, upon the academics as the most insidiously situated. Tailor — Milton Sanford Mayer

To have harmony on a team, you need a coach who can get inside the head of every player and get them all pulling in one direction. — Jerry West

Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about.
True North — Jim Harrison

Because no matter how far you may travel, you are what you are, and even when you are flying at thrilling new heights, circling the sun and thinking you belong in the halo of that perfect golden light, you do not. The wings always melt, and you always crash-land in your same old self. — Jeff Lindsay

I was headfirst into the deep ocean before I learned how to control my dinghy in the swimming pool. — Jane S. Fancher

The great lesson I get from 'Moby-Dick' is that when the times are bad, when there is great foreboding, there are still ways to go about living. It's through Ishmael that I find a kind of overall cosmic approach to a meaningful life in this meaningless world. — Nathaniel Philbrick

I read about writers who have routines. They write at certain times of the day. I can't do that. I am always writing-but in my head. — Jamaica Kincaid